Harrow’s Mayor, Councillor Jean Lammiman, will be awarding prizes to the children of Harrow who won the council’s ‘Climate Change’ art competition, sponsored by local developer, ZEDHomes.

Date:                Friday June 1, 2007
Time:                10.30 am
Place:               Harrow Civic Centre – Civic Centre Gardens (indoor location if raining)
Address:           Station Road - Harrow - Middlesex - HA1 2XF

Journalists and photographers wanting interviews with ZEDHomes or Harrow Council’s Affordable Warmth/HECA Officer, Natalie Morgans, should contact:
Claire Thompson
Zed PR
Tel: 0118 969 8966
E: cthompson@zedpr.co.uk

24 May 2007: London, UK

Residents of Harrow and Pinner are to have a NICE Day, thanks to an initiative by local eco-developer, ZEDHomes.  The NICE Car Company, which provides all-electric cars, scooters, and trucks for London, will join the developer at the Harrow Council ‘Greener Homes’ event at Pinner Community Centre on Sunday June 10, 2007, offering local families the chance to experience electric cars, trucks and scooters first hand.

“We are keen that people should see these cars and see just how funky and practical they are,” said Julian Wilford, Managing Director, NICE Cars.  “Many of us need a car to get around London but the increase in car use has some big impacts for us all in terms of global warming and environmental pollution.  Most of our London journeys are local, averaging just over four miles per trip.  Electric cars make so much more sense in a city. The stylish MEGA City is a practical little car but comes with the added ‘feel good factor’ of having something that’s not chugging out pollution and fumes.  And the Vectrix scooter, apart from being highly practical and economical, looks so Italian that it almost yells ‘passione’.

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ZEDHomes is pleased to hear of Gordon Brown’s plans for five new ‘eco towns’ comprising of up to 100,000 homes created in ‘carbon neutral’ communities.

Brown’s ongoing commitment to green housing seems genuine; following his announcement in the last budget that stamp study is to be scrapped on all new ‘zero carbon’ homes up to £500,000 until 2012.

ZEDHomes feels that Brown can make a practical difference by promising to extend this green financial incentive to ALL ‘carbon neutral’ homes, and introducing financial inducements on a sliding scale to encourage people to go beyond a simple solar panel and double glazing!

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11 May 2007: Harrow, UK

ZEDHomes has sponsored the Climate Change event, organised by SERA (www.sera.org.uk) on Wednesday 6th June, 2007.  SERA has established a number of forums to facilitate the discussion of environmental issues within the political arena, and at this event, ZEDHomes will address the forum, and will raise a series of issues that act as barriers to ‘green’ home developments in the UK, highlighting anomalies within the planning system.

“Whilst we are really keen to be involved at all levels and with all parties involved in the planning and development processes affecting the homes we build, we are particularly interested in addressing Ministers over what we perceive as a lack of incentives for developers to anything more than the absolute minimum in terms of sustainability,” said Michael Shwartz, Managing Director, ZEDHomes.

SERA is a network of environmentalists that brings together politicians, businesses, environmental professionals and trade unionists.  Its aim is to promote sustainable environmental policies. Using its experience of MP and ministerial dialogue to encourage parties with an interest in the environment to further environmental politics, its priorities for campaigns and policies are based on extensive consultation exercises with senior civil servants, local councillors, policy advisors, MPs and Ministers.

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